Questions, Asked and Answered

St Louis has 61.9 square miles of land, making it slightly larger than Liechtenstein.

For scale, this is a little over 2.5 times the size of Manhattan (22.9 sq mi), 1.3 times the size of Boston or San Francisco (˜48 sq mi), 0.8 times the size of Cleveland (77.7 sq mi), around half the size of Atlanta or the Gaza Strip (˜135 sq mi), and almost exactly the size of Washington DC (61.4 sq mi).

Wolfram Alpha also tells me that it is "1.2 times the size of an adult male cougar's home range".

How many miles are there in St Louis City?

Mary at the STL street department tells me that there are 1,100 miles of paved street in town, and around 600 miles of alleys.

Wolfram alpha tells me that's very close to equal to the radius of the moon.

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When did you start this project?

My first ride was on March 28th, 2012. I rode from St Louis' highest point (Arsenal and Sublette) to St Louis' lowest point (River Des Peres and the Mississippi River).

Other Projects:

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth:an Urban HistoryA documentary film about the profound ways in which the American city changed in the 20th Century. Told through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis.